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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISP Date: 18 Oct 1995 02:41:09 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <461pg5$i7v@tzlink.j51.com> References: <45ujr7$fis@ra.isisnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Charles Tassell (ctassell@isn.net) wrote: : I'm working for a company that is about to set up an Internet Service : Provider in a relatively small market (we will probably have around 100 users : at the start) What I am wondering is whether or not FreeBSD is stable and : supported enough to run as the router for a mainly PPP connections. : Any comments? I know wuarchive runs off of a Pentium with FreeBSD but it's : just an FTP server, isn't it? My current provider,who has close to 400 accounts split roughly 7:5 PPP:shell, is planning to upgrade from UnixWare to FreeBSD soon...I plan to start an ISP shortly with FreeBSD but can't predict my customer mix.